Random set of the day: Emergency Treatment Center
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 6380 Emergency Treatment Center, released in 1987. It's one of 24 Town sets produced that year. It contains 308 pieces and 5 minifigs, and its retail price was US$29.75.
It's owned by 3927 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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My cousins had this, when we were kids. It's a nice hospital, although I feel like they had to sacrifice some realism by putting the waiting room in the front lawn.
But I feel like, for that reason, Lego has always struggled with hospitals. Because the building needs a front entrance, but also an emergency entry for where the ambulances dock (because kids watch TV and that's the context that they're going to associate with hospitals, more than anything else).
Oh yeah, looks serious, he's got the smiles. Oh no... so do we!
What’s the chef doing there.
Lego needs more hospitals, ambulances, doctors and nurses. Those are the real heroes.
Great town set! I grew up with the sets with the yellow Legoland banner
We did not have this particular set when I was a kid, but this set with its limited color palete, base plate and 4 stud wide vehicle really hits that nostalgia button! Love it!
Amazing looking hospital. Although we had a pretty good looking City hospital a couple of years ago, nothing beats the classics.
Oh! Oh! Oh! I had this set! Actually, I still have this set, but I just disassembled it to put it back in storage. I just don't have enough shelf space to keep everything on display anymore.
This is a nice set, complete and cute and well equipped. I've thought about buying it to go with my 2018 and 1975 models, but haven't done that yet - lots of competition for hard-earned Lego dollars, y'know.
One of my last sets before my dark ages. Loved it and still have it.
One of the best places to set up a lawn chair and have an afternoon beer: right in front of the ER. That girl in the red overalls knows how to chill.
Simply a classic I have enjoyed building and rebuilding. My first serious hospital set except for the 6364 Paramedic Unit from 1980. I believe this set came out in 1987, so as usual with Lego, there were quite a few years between releases. The ambulance was cool and compact, and who could not love the stretchers with the fold up wheels, nearly like the real things! I remember buying my set at Sears with some hard-earned paper route money. Oh, the good old days!
Wow. That's a pretty fancy first sporting event first aid tent, which is clearly not capable of handling anything more complex than a papercut (I mean grass in the ER? C'mon...).
My second "large" set as a kid (first was 6386 ). Back then, I wished they would have put a little more effort in the ambulance bay/ED. Still an otherwise great set for its day.
Okay, I never realised until just now that this set and 6598 are basically the same building
It's green carpet, y'all. :)
Oh yes! This sums up my life with Lego. So much nostalgia about that era. I've never had this set but I loved every one of them. bringback4stud
@Your_Future_President said:
"What’s the chef doing there. "
That's not a chef's hat, that's just a white peaked cap often used on LEGO police officers and boat captains. The image (maybe it's just the viewing angle?) distorts its height such that it does kind of look like a chef's toque hat.
@Zordboy said:
"...because kids watch TV and that's the context that they're going to associate with hospitals, more than anything else). "
Pffftttt! Kids don’t watch TV. They mostly play video games and do the tiktok and the facebooks. Get with the times, old man!
This was the only City set I ever owned, being more into Pirates and Space as a kid. I still have many pieces from this set, including the stretcher and the base plate!
Good hospital set, especially for the 1980s. Definitely one of the top 5 LEGO has produced.
Ahh perfect timing, Huwbot! I just posted my very first youtube video on my lego city hospital MOC. Paradisa City Hospital part 1. The channel name is: Teal Bricks in Paradisa. It has a unique theme to it that may be worth a look! (<-shameless but necessary plug). Lego hospitals were always fascinating since Lego only seemed to make one about once a decade and always felt like this was a big gap in the world of city/town lego! I didnt have this set, however the ambulance from 1994 was a favorite of mine.
Unfortunately I never got this as a kid. Would have gone well with the rest of my City back then.
@MisterBrickster said:
"Okay, I never realised until just now that this set and 6598 are basically the same building"
Nicely observed. i totally agree
This summer me and the boys built a city with my old town & 12V train sets, this one still is one of their favourites. It helps that there's only one hospital while there's more than one police or fire station so it stands out... and all together they outnumber the regular houses :D
A door was definitely something that should have been thought of though ;)
It was the summer of 2005, I was riding my bicycle all the way from Holland to Rome and was about three weeks into the journey. At one point I arrived at the foot of the Apennine mountains and started climbing. Carrying a tent and everything else needed for camping on a bicycle meant that I could only climb at a very slow pace.
After about 30 kilometers of steep incline I arrived at the small town of Zocca, at the top of a mountain. There I found a small shop tended by a very old man who had this set still on the shelve, 18 jears after it's release.
I could not be more happy and bought it for 30 euros. He dusted it with a rag and I left the shop with it, strapping the box to my bike. Once I reached the city of Siena, it cost another 30 euros to ship the set securely back to my home in the Netherlands.
Good memories!
Ah, the memories.My first garbage can, my first stretchers, my first non-printed, non-yellow minifigure head, and the female patient's hair is still the only example I have of that piece. And I always loved those angled window pieces.
This is a good set! I own one!
I got this set back in 1987 and still have it. One of my all time favourite Town sets.
On of my best Christmas presents back in the days
Loved this set as a kid. Lego Town was so great.
I recently installed the 1997 game "Lego Island" on my Windows XP computer. This set reminds me a bit of this game, but it comes from even earlier era.
One of the best hospitals ever.
We need more medical city sets, to go with the millions of fire and police ones.
@PurpleDave said:
"(I mean grass in the ER? C'mon...)."
Green floors where quite common in hospitals in the '80s.
Don't ask.
Good old sets with baseplate included.
So tired of police sets, give us more hospitals and medical sets like this.
This is an amazing set, very clean design for the architecture and the ambulance was very nice as well. I do own this but have a hard time getting the pieces together..
This is how should a city set looks like in 2021. I mean the clompexity of the set. The van looks like van, opening doors and roof, it is vell designed. The building is not just a facade, has different rooms. Sadly the TLG think differently and produce ugly cars and almost 2D buildings...
to this day still one of my favorites!
@Spartan_Ghost:
Eh, I never cared much for Town as a theme until they gave me Batman to spice things up. Back in the day I remember wanting a motorcycle repair shop and the Outback sub-theme, and that's about it.
@MisterBrickster:
They definitely have similar layouts, but there are still quite a few significant differences. The similarity of the ambulance and police van doesn't help, though.
@rdn said:
"This is how should a city set looks like in 2021. I mean the clompexity of the set. The van looks like van, opening doors and roof, it is vell designed. The building is not just a facade, has different rooms. Sadly the TLG think differently and produce ugly cars and almost 2D buildings..."
You mean like this one from two years ago? https://brickset.com/sets/60204-1/City-Hospital
Seems to be better than 6380 in every way
@fakespacesquid:
Not if they give you one of those gowns that doesn't tie shut in the back...
My cousin had this set, we would play endlessly with this and his space armada. We had no issues as kids mixing all the themes together. It was fun times and these sets still have that old school charm for me that makes them so appealing.